RecCentre Group Fitness Challenge

Are you ready for this year’s Group Fitness Challenge, sponsored by Bargain Box? Registrations are open now, and you can start collecting stamps from Saturday 1st April!

Not sure what it is? Head to our website and read up on the details. In short, you sign up to complete 100 Group Fitness classes by Sunday 15th October, 2017. It helps you stay on track to attend 3-4 classes per week, which will help you stay healthy and well through the year. Keep track of your attendance by collecting a stamp in your class diary (you’ll get this once you register) from the instructor, after every class. You can win monthly prizes, or the big ones at the end, and you’ll earn rewards as you hit milestones in your class diary. Double stamp days earn you twice the stamps, which are great if you get behind when you go on holiday.

Here are our top tips to reach 100 classes in 29 weeks:

Pick a day to plan your week, and pop your favourite classes into your diary. Prioritise yourself, and make sure you keep that appointment!

Find a gym buddy to keep you extra accountable, they’re relying on you to turn up too. You can have your daily (or 3x weekly) catch-up over a workout instead of coffee (or do both!) It really is much more fun!

Keep an eye out for double stamp days on our facebook page and montly newsletters – you can collect 2 stamps for every class you attend on these days to zoom ahead (or catch up!)

Attend our mega and glow classes – these are super fun, a chance to dress up and earn you extra stamps for attendance. The mega class also allows you to cross off a class you can’t get to because of scheduling, or that just doesn’t appeal to you. (because yes, you do have to attend every style we offer at least once! It’s good to be open to new experiences!)

There are no limits to how many people can participate in the challenge, but the sooner you get started, the easier it will be to hit that magic 100.

This year, we are stoked to be partnering with BargainBox who’ll be providing us with all sorts of goodies for prizes and giveaways, along with nutrition tips and advice.

Roimata is the name given to a sculpture designed by Māori artist Riki Manuel (Ngāti Porou) to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Canterbury earthquake on 22 February 2011. It was unveiled at a special ceremony on that date in 2018, and tells a story of remembrance.

To Māori, the upside down koru represents death, in keeping with a memorial to those who lost their lives in the February earthquake of 2011.

The surface is undulated to represent Ōtakaro the river Avon, onto which the people of Ōtautahi Christchurch, throw flowers each year in memory of that fateful day. The bronze flowers on the surface depict this ritual.

The sculpture sits at the Clyde Road end of University Drive, a short distance from the Recreation Centre bridge over Ōtakaro where those who attended the unveiling carried out this ritual by throwing fresh flowers onto the river to created a spiritual link with the commemorative service being held later that day in the city.

Roimata, will remain on our campus as a permanent reminder of the earthquakes, and as a focus each year for our remembrance, the loss and suffering of our University community, the contribution they made afterwards, and what the University has become since.